Fish

We were at the Ala Moana doing some shopping in Honolulu and found this great pond of beautiful fish. Crew stared for a very very very long time.

Hawaii

While in Hawaii we went on a catamaran ride out to see dolphins and go snorkeling. It was amazing. The weather was fantastic, we saw 80+ dolphins, sea turtles, and so many beautiful fish.


We took a day to go for a drive up to the North Shore. We went to Laie to see the LDS Honolulu temple. Beautiful isn't it.
Shaved Ice anyone? My favorite is pina colada with ice-cream. It was a happy day. Matsumoto's is definitely a favorite tourist spot and we loved it.

Yes, we did have Christmas...

We did actually celebrate Christmas this year. It was wonderful of course. I love love love Christmas. We had so much fun playing games, cooking food, seeing family. It is the best time of year. Christmas morning the kids actually let us sleep in until 8:30. It was their present to us.


Gracie was super excited of course. She was literally bouncing off the walls.

My favorite gift was a much needed gift card to a local spa. Thanks Rob you are the best.

Our kids love Christmas breakfast. It is the only time of the year they get a box of "sugary" cereal.

Seriously cute. They are so much fun.

Yes they are silly much if not most of the time.

Yes, Crew did have a birthday...

So I am not the best at blogging, and while trying to catch up on posts I realized yes Crew did have a birthday in December. He is officially 2. Well technically now he is 2 years and 3 months. We had a great little family party. Crew is so easy going and fun to be around. We are so thankful he is a part of our little family.


He got planes, trains, and automobiles for presents.

Crew inherited my sweet tooth, and its all about the chocolate cupcakes.

Here they are. They were quite tasty.

Happy Birthday Paige

Right after the holidays we go into birthday mode. Paige, Grace, and I all have our birthdays within 1 month of each other. So it gets a bit crazy. This was the beginning with Paige turning 9. This year we let her have a "sleepover". In theory it seemed like a great idea. The only catch was Rob was out of town for work. 6 other 9 year old girls came over starting at 6pm. We made pizza's, then went roller skating, then back to our place for a lot of shrieking, giggling, late night cupcake making, late night snacks and junk food, movies, and more shrieking. It is quite amazing the amount of volume 8, 9 year old girls, plus Grace can make. I should have been more prepared with ear plugs.

All in all, excluding the skating rink injury for Isabelle which required her dad taking her to the emergency room at 10pm on a Friday night (sorry Bob), the party was a huge success. Thankfully my sister Lisa and her kids Jordan, Mackenzie, and Connor came to help me out. Mackenzie my almost 13 year old niece stayed the night to help out as well. It was fantastic. Happy Birthday Paige!!!

Paige and Volleyball

So in my effort to do a little catch up I stumbled upon some pictures from Paige's Volleyball season. She has quite a nack for it :) Of course I am a little excited about the fact that she loves it. Here is a great little video of her serving.

I Love Math...

I don't really love math. I am enduring math. I am just about to finish my last class to finally graduate and it just happens to be math. If you are ever on my facebook, all I ever do lately is study math and eat M&Ms to get me through. My Professor (Scott Fallstrom) loves to provide us with entertaining extra credit opportunities. This is one of them. Valentine Tattoos. Of course I did it. I put them on, took pictures, and emailed them off for him to post. The only problem was that the next day I had to get X-rays, and and MRI for that shoulder and felt rather silly sporting "Math" tattoos. I seriously better get a good grade for this class.